This is what I have been working on for the last few days. I will add a wash to tone down the black and maybe to show some rivets. Theres a few things I'm ot happy with. I still need to order some more letters and get some reflective like tape. Thats just one side. Theres still the other side, ends, underneath, wheels, couplers, trucks, air hoses, and inside
Heres the prototype:
What I started with:
Where I am at:
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Nifty!! Let's hope it works as well as you wish it to.
-Crandell
I already posted this in the "active duty" thread, but thought I'd offer it up for WPF as well.
Here's a couple of photos of my layout as it currently sits in my garage awaiting the moving company (we're moving to California next week):
The "box" in the foreground consists of two 18" x 4' long layout sections, boxed in with 1/8" masonite. The side facing you is obviously the bottom of one of the layout sections. The other layout section is on the opposite side of the "box," also with it's bottom side facing out. Between the sections are 4 pieces of 16" tall, 1/8" thick masonite secured with #6 screws around the perimeter of the two sections. There is no "vertical" support bracing in the corners between the two layout sections. Turns out the stiffness of the masonite itself makes a sturdy enough structure to survive transportation from point A to B... At least, that's the theory. This is my first attempt with this kind of thing, so hopefully it will work out well. There are a total of 4 of these "boxes" that make up my layout in "transit mode." The other 3 assembled boxes can be seen in the background.
By the way, the masonite will serve double duty. Once the layout is reassembled, the masonite sections will be used as the backdrop for the layout.
Dan Stokes
My other car is a tunnel motor
Say, that is waaay cool, Tim. I even think you got all the rivets!
Hi all,
Its been quite some time since I posted an update of my CNJ Bronx Terminal layout, for good reason, I haven't been working on it.
The last few weeks I have returned to the project and have completed to benchwork for the portable layout.
Instead of using curtains to hide the legs I built a fake shipping crate that is fastened to the legs. I added rivets to the edge of the fascia using wood plugs and painted it to look like rust.
The layout breaks down into sections that allow me to easily move it to shows. Tomorrow it will be on display at the Kitchener Doubleheaders Layout Tour, if you are in the area drop by!
Lots of construction photos at my CNJ Bronx Terminal blog.
jecorbett wrote: bogp40 wrote: Some of the latest ones from the club:Are the concrete railings in these first two photos scratchbuilt or commercial products? I'd like to create a similar look when I tackle my large urban scene.
bogp40 wrote: Some of the latest ones from the club:
Some of the latest ones from the club:
Are the concrete railings in these first two photos scratchbuilt or commercial products? I'd like to create a similar look when I tackle my large urban scene.
I didn't do this portion. I believe they are Rix Products to continue the same look as the Rix overpass
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Well here is a blast from the past I'm sure, this is a couple of shots of my control panel for my little layout.
I think that for a layout my size that DC is the way for me...
Brad
***, I missed my train..
Your's truely running those B&O Fs, Oops
Hello all.
I took my layout to a Model Railway show in London last weekend. We had a great time although the 600 mile round trip was a bit punishing, especially on the Sunday night after a weekend operating.
Here are a few photos showing the layout in the context of the great hall at Alexandra Palace - once the home of the BBC.
Alexandra Palace
Jon
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jecorbett wrote: Looks a lot like the unscenicked portions of my layout. And I haven't been a teenager for almost 40 years. What's the problem?I thought this was the week I would finally have a contribution to WPF but I hate to post partially completed scenes. I have spent most of the winter on the town of Bedford Falls, the second largest town on my fictional NYBW. There's still a few more pieces that need to be put into place and then I can ballast the track and have something worth showing. Heavy rains have postponed the start of the golf season for me here in Ohio which has extended the MR season. I'd like to have this section of the layout reasonably complete, minus the fine details, before the golf clubs put the layout on the back burner.
Looks a lot like the unscenicked portions of my layout. And I haven't been a teenager for almost 40 years. What's the problem?
I thought this was the week I would finally have a contribution to WPF but I hate to post partially completed scenes. I have spent most of the winter on the town of Bedford Falls, the second largest town on my fictional NYBW. There's still a few more pieces that need to be put into place and then I can ballast the track and have something worth showing. Heavy rains have postponed the start of the golf season for me here in Ohio which has extended the MR season. I'd like to have this section of the layout reasonably complete, minus the fine details, before the golf clubs put the layout on the back burner.
lvanhen wrote:Looks like the Thomas stuff is in better shape than the HO!!!
Nothing works, and the room doesn't have a good Air Conditioner yet. The buiklders ran a flex duct that pinches, so in the Summer, it get's too hot up there to work. Besides that, we'd been collecting trains before building the layout, and have a lot of engines/cars/etc with no place to put them. And besides that, the room, and the stuff on the layout, is how you say "slightly disorganzed". Teh track is Bachmann EZ stuff that's not a wide enough radius, and the "benchwork" isn't even close. In the other pictures I;m going to put up when Photobucket settles down, will show that despite our attempst and use of a lazer level, there's an ever so noticlble grade through the whole thing, and one side of the layout is about 8 inches higher than the other. There be massive rework, and alot of unused 18 inch curves.
-Morgan
Yep, It;s early. But I;m up, so nyah! Anyway, these crawled up form the primordial goo in which they should have stayed. Senty forth to doom a nation, and signify why teenagers shouldn;t have large areas for trains, They are,
LAYOUT PICTURES
(DUN DUN DUN!)
First shot of the new storage shelves for under the layout. Just put these up not too long a go, and their already filling up!
Lookign along the room.
Closet area, home to our Computer Hub that will be recording the cars we have in, when we can get the programs on it. This was the first area built for the layout with some semblence of a plan. It was to be a terminal, but now it;s looking more like it's gonna be engine shops.